VI 



HARVEST AND GLEANING TIME 



SCARLET poppies are blazing, blue cornflowers 

 are making a brave show, round about the 

 wheat-stems small, delicate-coloured creeping 

 convolvuli run and twine in all directions, and 

 the first rows of shock are seen in the fields. 

 Reaping-time has come. 



It is noon, and the atmosphere is hot and 

 still ; but presently there comes a faint sigh, 

 followed by another cool wafts of breeze, 

 which are just strong enough to drift the 



plumes from the ripe thistle-heads, and, dying 



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